Benefits Update: Concurrent Receipt is now officially named Concurrent Retirement and Disability Pay (CRDP).

Frequently Asked CRDP Questions:

1. Do all retirees with a VA-rated disability qualify?

Answer: No. Only those who served long enough in the military to be qualified to receive regular military retirement pay (normally 20 years of service for the purposes of computing retired pay).

National Guard and Reserves are also eligible if they have completed 20 (or more) good years of service.

Note: Medical disability retirees with less than 20 years' service are eligible to receive Combat Related Special Compensation (CRSC), but not CRDP.

2. Do I have to have a VA disability rating to qualify?

Answer: Yes. To qualify the disability must be rated at 50% or higher.

3. Do I have to apply for concurrent receipt?

Answer: No.

4. How will I be paid?

Answer: The VA disability compensation will automatically be added to your regular retirement pay.

5. Are CRDP Payments Retroactive?

Answer: Yes. All compensation will be retroactive to the date you became eligible for CRDP. Retroactive payments for CRDP are retroactive to January 1, 2004.

6. When will the new payments begin?

Answer:You will begin receiving your concurrent receipt soon after you are determined to be eligible.

7. How much will I get paid?

Answer: Your personal CRDP payment rate is determined by your current VA Disability Compensation waiver, minus the CRDP "Table Rate," then multiplied by the current CRDP "Phase Out" percentage. This makes it impossible to create a simple CRDP Payment Rate table that applies to everyone. 

Learn more about the CRDP computation.

8. If I am qualified for both concurrent receipt and Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC) can I take both?

Answer: No. DFAS is paying each retiree the higher dollar amount between the CRSC and CRDP payments regardless of taxable disposition of CRDP.


Note: December 2005 retired members entitled to receive either CRSC or Concurrent Retirement and Disability Pay (CRDP) will be provided with an election form as part of the annual open season. During the open season, affected retirees will have the opportunity to elect to receive either CRDP or CRSC for the next year. In order for the entitlement to change, the form must be received and processed by Jan. 31, 2006. Based on the election, the change will take effect on the payment dated Feb.1, 2006. In addition, as a result of the phased in CRDP, the amount retirees will receive for CRDP will increase effective January 2006 and will be reflected in the payment dated Feb.1, 2006.

9. Is the concurrent receipt compensation taxable?

Answer: Based on current law regarding taxability of disability income (26 U.S.C. 104), concurrent receipt may be taxable the same as your regular retirement pay.